Scaling Togetherness: Five Tips for Organizations

Scaling Togetherness: Five Tips for Organizations

In class last week, we received a great question from an Area Superintendent of a large, urban school district. In short, she noted that Togetherness systems had served her well as a school leader, and she was curious when and how to scale Togetherness. I loved this...
Building a Second Brain, OR Organize Those Dang Screenshots!

Building a Second Brain, OR Organize Those Dang Screenshots!

This title has been sitting on my shelves for a bit, and when I found myself recently scrolling through a gazillion photos to find a recipe I had screenshotted from Instagram, I figured it was time to give this book a read. Building a Second Brain subscribes to many...
Quiz Time: Are you more of a What-er or a When-er?

Quiz Time: Are you more of a What-er or a When-er?

In our almost two decades of training others toward Togetherness, we have noticed that people tend to Together themselves across two different dimensions. There are those people who seem to favor the calendar a bit more (we call them When-ers) and those that strongly...
Cave Time: Give Yourself the Gifts of Accountability and Focus

Cave Time: Give Yourself the Gifts of Accountability and Focus

Something that comes up over and over again in our classes these days is the need for time to focus (and of course, there are tons of great books on there on the topic like this, this and this). (Sidenote: has anyone tried Flip Phone February?) The thing is, the EASY...
Purple Feather Boas in the Name of Togetherness

Purple Feather Boas in the Name of Togetherness

I recently had the privilege of working with all the leaders over at Coney Island Prep in Brooklyn, and we spent some time brainstorming about how to protect our time for focused work in the midst of a hectic school environment. I joked with the group that when I...